Browsing Theses by Subject "popular culture"
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The Celebrity Imprint: "Religion" and Identity Among Fans of John Lennon and Johnny Cash
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)Fandom-as-religion literature examines similarities between fandom and religion and, in particular, dimensions of the fan experience such as beliefs, emotion, and ritual. This area emerged in the last thirty years and ... -
'Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don't': The Inferiority Complex, Nationalism, and Maclean's Music Coverage, 1967-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-19)This thesis critically analyses music coverage in Maclean’s between 1967-1995, and reveals that the magazine continually stressed Canadian music as inferior to that produced by foreign artists. Only during times of intense ... -
Representations of Violent Women in Popular Culture and World Politics: The Mothers, Monsters, Whores, and Penitents of Young Adult Fantasy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-21)As young adult fiction has surged in popularity over the past decade, a popular new sub-genre has emerged. These novels feature high-fantasy stories with young female heroines who are fighters, assassins, spies, and rebel ... -
Wish You Were Here: Representing Trans Road Narratives in Mainstream Cinema (1970-2016)
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-02)When Christine Jorgensen stepped off a plane in New York City from Denmark in 1952, she became one of the first instances of trans celebrity, and her intensely popular story was adapted from an article to a memoir and then ...